Cultural Ibdustries

Elena ZelentsovaCreative economics and city developmentThoughts on prospects of creative clusters in Russia.

№ 2 (33) June 2009

Vladimir KnyagininCultural Industry in the CityWhy do cities need creative spaces? In what way their projection is connected with strategies of territorial development?

№ 2 (33) June 2009

Peter EnglenSubtopia: Swedish Passions for CreationCreation and strategies of a famous in Sweden creative cluster - Subtopia.

№ 2 (33) June 2009

Ekaterina GandraburaDelicious History - Chance for KolomnaIn 2007 with the help of grant contest ‘The Changing Museum in the Changing World’ of Vladimir Potanin’s foundation a private museum ‘Pastila of Kolomna’ was opened.

Sergey GnedovskiyCultural industries and development managementCity as an Idea... as a space of choice...­, as a nutrient medium that cultivates the sense of taste, the life style, imagination, character... This text is about planning city environment technologies not as a habitat but as the environment of possibilities. However it is also about the stereotypes of managerial decisions, about lack of faith in private initiative and other realia in the life of working towns.

№4 (19) December 2005

City environment and cultural industriesCreative industries are western technology of cultural structuring. During five years attempts to implant this experience on the Russian territory are made but with variable success. As a rule, private initiatives are more stable. Positive results in applying creative approach to development of city environment are unknown at all. Publication of a series of texts of British expert Linda Moss evoked a vivid reaction amidst readers of “60 parallel”. It is not often possible to see a detailed and honest analysis of failures of big public cultural projects. Continuing this subject, our expert Tatyana Abankina organized several discussions with colleagues. In this issue we publish the first part of these discussions.

Linda MossSocialist Republic of South YorkshireSheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter has been working for 20 years. It was a pioneer of now well developed in Europe and is being promoted in Russia. What can be learned from this pioneering example?

№4 (15) December 2004

Creative industries or funky businessIf up to now you have looked on activity in the spheres of culture and business as two games with fundamentally different rules and players - then you don’t have much hope of moving into the super league in either business or culture. Culture and business are changing before our eyes. If you are looking for success in ‘business’ you should read the diaries of Salvador Dali. If you hope to make the grade in ‘culture’, take a long look at Richard Branson’s autobiography. ‘Change – or die!’

№4 (15) December 2004

Landry CharlesThe Creative CityHere we present some extracts from the book The Creative City by Charles Landry. Cultural Policy Institute (Moscow) will publish this book by the end of the year 2004. Charles Landry is the founder of COMEDIA consultuncy agency. He started COMEDIA in 1978 and has worked in over 20 countries and undertaken over 180 assignments for national governments, international agencies and local authorities in the UK and abroad. His specialisms are strategic policy development, the economics of innovation, and city futures.

Linda MossConstructing White ElephantsWhy do some big investment projects on creationg cultural centres fail? What do we need to think of to avoid a loud void in places that were created for people to spend their time? The British expert on cultural industries, Linda Moss, recounts how to avoid irretrievable mistakes while planning dimensioned cultural projects.